Grand Rapids Ballet

Grand Rapids Ballet, Michigan’s only professional classical ballet company, returns to Great Lakes Center for the Arts with a mixed repertoire program, showcasing a diversity of styles and highlighting the range of their dancers. With choreography from master choreographer Lar Lubovitch, artistic director James Sofranko, and dance world sensation Jennifer Archibald, this program is perfect for audiences of all ages and promises to be entertaining and enlightening.

Lar Lubovitch’s Concerto 622 is a tender duet set to Mozart’s famous clarinet concerto, called “the most famous male duet in the international dance world” by the New York Times. Sofranko’s Diablo Rojo showcases the technical abilities and competitive spirit of four dancers set to a driving Spanish guitar soundtrack. Brooklyn-based Jennifer Archibald’s wistful While Away was created for the dancers of Grand Rapids Ballet in 2024 and is set to Edvard Grieg’s “Holberg Suite.” Archibald, an artist who draws on a background in ballet and hip-hop, is described in a February 2025 cover story for Dance Magazine as having “developed a movement vocabulary that blends classical ballet with hard-hitting street styles."


Image: Ahna Lipchik and James Cunningham in Jennifer Archibald’s While Away. Photo by Ray Nard Imagemaker

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